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01/01/2013

A Long Day of Cleaning

Jordan and I spent an unexpectedly long, long day deep cleaning to kick off the new year. I dont know whether to be excited or exhausted.

It all starts with the nursery, or maybe with just how Jordan and I are pack-rats and lazy with the folding... but back to the nursery theory: we have begun organzing a beautiful nursery for the little one we're expecting in 2013! Just like organizing goes, you find something that needs to go in one place, but another place needs to be rearranged before that one place can be available for use. And thus our day began.

We want the now-nursery (previously a craft room/storage area) to be a blank slate for the baby. A month ago we were able to box up most of the crafts and storage, but there were a few items in the room's closet that needed to find a new home. The coats & clothes were to be hung in my closet, and the extra pillows and blankets were to be consolidated with our extra bed settings. This is where the big uh-oh was; the bedroom. Jordan and I need to have a few New Years resolutions when it comes to keeping the bedroom clean. We let our laundry pile grow to unheard of heights, and when we do the laundry, but forget to fold and/or put away the clothes. We try on outfits, or take off previous outfits and let the clothes live where they meet the floor. It's worse than you're imagining, I almost guarantee... so, to add the extra storage to our bedroom, we needed to do some serious cleaning today.

Wow, it took all day. It started by sorting the clean from dirty and putting in a couple loads of laundry while we started in on the monster we created. We folded countless articles of clothing. I went through everything piece of fashion & accessory I own, and we went through many hangers & trash bags. Better yet, we created many donation piles & and sisters-can-have piles. Jordan and I took down a standing shelf and turned it into a closet organzer, and also set up a Christmas-gift filing cabinet (much needed). It was so good to get this done, but quite exhausting for this pregnant lady.

We put away all of our extra guest bedding, and come to think of it, I still have to move the extra coats & clothes over from the baby's closet to my closet. Sigh. We still have some work to do (I bet monsters wouldn't fit or want to be under our bed), but today was a HUGE accomplishment. I honestly can't wait to do more!